Grim Flicks Creep Out Toronto (After 328 Films, Two Dames Come Waltzing to the Rescue)
By the back half of the 29th Toronto International Film Festival, Rex Reed has run out of Valium and can't find his plane ticket home. A dispatch on the year the star wattage dimmed, the politics got inescapable, and the depravity wing of the program tested even a critic's stamina.